The Arabian Gulf is the warmest sea in the world and is host to a globally significant population of the whale shark Rhincodon typus. To investigate regional whale shark behaviour and movements, 59 satellite-linked tags were deployed on whale sharks in the Al Shaheen area off Qatar from 2011-14. Four different models of tag were used throughout the study, each model able to collect differing da...

1. Introduction The South China Sea (SCS) is a semi-enclosed tropical and subtropical sea located between the Asian land mass (including Taiwan) to the west and north, the Phillipine Islands to the east and Malaysia and Borneo to the south (Figure 1), a total of 3.5×10 6 km 2 surface area. It includes the shallow Gulf of Thailand and connections to the East China Sea (through the Taiwan Strait)...

In 2001, a publicly funded 7 valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (7vPCV) program commenced for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children aged less than 2 years. This study updates early estimates of 7vPCV coverage in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children using Australian Childhood Immunisation Register data between 31 December 2004 and 30 September 2007. We chose four 3-month bi...

Citation: McCalman J, Bainbridge RG, Redman-MacLaren M, Russo S, Rutherford K, Tsey K, Ungar M, Wenitong M and Hunter E (2017) The Development of a Survey Instrument to Assess Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students’ Resilience and Risk for Self-Harm. Front. Educ. 2:19. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2017.00019 The Development of a survey instrument to assess aboriginal and Torres strait islander st...

Australia has two distinct Indigenous peoples: Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples belong to diverse, contemporary communities, each containing individuals with different perspectives, life experiences and aspirations. While there are many shared interests based on their status as Indigenous Australians, it should be expected that there is a div...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians have a cancer incidence for all sites combined equivalent to or slightly lower than for other Australians. They have a higher incidence of cancers of the cervix, liver and gallbladder, oesophagus, unknown primary site, mouth and throat, lung and pancreas, but a lower incidence of cancers of the prostate, female breast, colon/rectum and skin (mel...

During the six-year period from 1995 to 2000, 23 cases of melioidosis were diagnosed from the Torres Strait islands that lie between northern Queensland and Papua New Guinea. This represents an average annual incidence of 42.7 per 100,000 population, the highest documented to date in this region. This probably reflects the extremely high prevalence of diabetes, the high seasonal rainfall in the...

Citation: Metfies K, Bauerfeind E, Wolf C, Sprong P, Frickenhaus S, Kaleschke L, Nicolaus A and Nöthig E-M (2017) Protist Communities in Moored Long-Term Sediment Traps (Fram Strait, Arctic)–Preservation with Mercury Chloride Allows for PCR-Based Molecular Genetic Analyses. Front. Mar. Sci. 4:301. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00301 Protist Communities in Moored Long-Term Sediment Traps (Fram Strait,...

There are currently about 156 000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in New South Wales (NSW), representing 2.3% of the total NSW population, and equating to 29% of the total Australian Aboriginal population. In this special issue of the NSW Public Health Bulletin, in accordance with NSWHealth policy, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are referred to as Aboriginal in...